(Sr) Associate / Manager, Strategic Finance & Business Operations

Verkada Inc.; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

HSA/FSA

Mental health support

Parental leave

Flexible PTO

Wellness programs

Healthy meals

Job summary

Verkada Inc. is seeking a (Sr) Associate / Manager in San Mateo, CA to lead strategic finance and business operations. You will partner with senior leaders, own budgeting for a multi-million dollar budget, and define dashboards to monitor health and performance.

The role emphasizes data-driven insights, strong modeling, and cross-functional collaboration in a fast-growing pre-IPO startup environment. The position requires 2–6+ years of analytical experience, fluency in SQL, and familiarity with

Qualifications

• 2–6+ years in strategic finance, business operations, FP&A, or related analytical role at a fast-growing company.
• Strong modeling, data analysis, and ability to translate concepts into structured models.
• Fluency with SQL and comfort with AI tools.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional partnership.

Responsibilities

• Be the primary business partner to senior leaders.
• Own budgeting and FP&A for multi-million dollar budget.
• Define dashboards and KPIs to track business health.
• Identify opportunities to improve resource allocation and drive efficiency.
• Improve tooling, automation, and internal processes.

Skills

Financial planning

Budgeting

Data analysis

SQL

AI tools

Tools

Excel

AI tools

Job description

(Sr) Associate / Manager, Strategic Finance & Business Operations

San Mateo, CA United States

Who We Are

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.

We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation , more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join a lean but growing Strategic Finance & Business Operations team at a high-growth pre-IPO startup. You will play a critical role as an analytical thought partner to various leaders and teams across Verkada to drive business insights, decision-making rigor, and operational excellence, helping us reach the next level of scale and operating sophistication in the process. Depending on interest, we currently have roles open in both our Product and GTM pillars.

In this role, you will:

• Be the primary business partner to several of our senior leaders
• Drive financial planning and budgeting as the accountable owner for key portions of our several hundred million dollar budget
• Define the management dashboard / key operating metrics that help us understand the health of our business, and generate deep insights around our performance
• Identify opportunities to improve resource allocation and operating efficiency, and work cross-functionally to tackle critical change projects to realize these opportunities
• Help us operate the business at the next level of scale through better tooling, self-serve automation, and internal processes
• 2-6+ years of top tier professional experience. You’re coming to us from a Strategic Finance, Business Operations, Sales Operations, FP&A, or other highly analytical role at a fast growing company, and may have begun your career in investing, management consulting, and/or investment banking.
• High analytical horsepower paired with strong modeling and data skills. You can effortlessly translate business concepts and frameworks to well structured spreadsheet models, and have the analytical toolkit to autonomously generate insights through data. Fluency in database concepts, SQL, and the latest AI tools is a big plus… you use AI to supercharge (not substitute for) your strong technical capabilities!
• Attention to detail and strong strategic instincts. You are meticulous in ensuring your and others’ output is precise and error-free, but pair this with a strong sense for 80/20 to know when things “pass the smell test” and what is critical vs. secondary to an answer.
• A growth mindset and comfort with ambiguity. You are comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment that will require you to create structure out of ambiguity, manage often competing priorities, and pivot quickly when circumstances change.
• Excellent communication and partnership skills. You can effectively engage with a diverse array of stakeholders ranging from sales reps to engineers, and build the credibility, relationships, and buy-in necessary to strike the delicate balance between partnering and constructive challenging that this role requires.
• A team player with a low "ego to smarts ratio". You bring a positive, learn-it-all (not know-it-all) energy to your teams, and are generally known for being great to work with. Life is short… we want to enjoy the time we spend with our colleagues!
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week in San Mateo, California.

US Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily

Additional information

• We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

Annual Pay Range

At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)

Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).

$140,000 - $220,000 USD

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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